Hell Blades of Nurgle

A bit more work has been done, mainly to the one Hell Blade.

It is still very rough and a lot is to be done still but i'm bored so I thought i'd do an update anyway. To highlight just how PIP this is I haven't even cleaned up around the vents after painting them black. Washes to be finished off, cleaning up to be done, migs, oils and so on still to do (of and the cockpit, pilot etc).

Should of got pictures during daylight really as these aren't great.

One last picture, somewhat appropriately a small fly (plague carrier no doubt) sacrificed itself in the paint. I have taken this as a sign from Papa Nurgle as his approval and blessing for the scheme.

Hell Blades of Nurgle 3

Painting has begun.

Very, very work in progress.

Must admit i'm not liking the stripes as much as I thought I would. Still need to do a lot including the flesh, adding lots of washes, adding rust to the engine and all that is after I paint a lot of other bits and bobs (including the cockpit of course).

Hell Blades of Nurgle 2

The Hell Blades have progressed a bit more, I have added some styrene to the rear of the cockpit area so when the canopy is fitted there is no longer a gap. The one Blade has .75 added, the other had .5 added. Some GS blended them in.

The planes and canopies then got a coat of Halfords Grey Primer. This is a nice undercoat for resin and will also highlight any gaps or rough areas I might of missed.

The grey shows up the surface texture quite nicely I think.

I also decided I really didn't like the rock on one of the bases, basically it was too big and the shape loked odd. So I ripped off the surface and hacked away at the foam beneath before adding some filler and redoing the PVA/filler/tissue covering and adding the sand.

Original base on left.

Much prefer it to the original version.

Next up will be filling in any gaps that I spot after the grey coat and then a black undercoat. I may actully paint them then...

...though I haven't nailed down the colours I want them yet. Thinking a light white/off white as the base colour though.


And my sodding preview button still isn't working.

Hell Blades of Nurgle

I decided to pluck for a project I have had half done for a while (one of far too many), namely my two Hell Blades.

I do love the Hell Blade, though it probably ties with the Thunderbolt and Marauder Destroyer as my favourite 40k Aircraft.

Before today these two had most of the GS done as well as the bases all done. I returned to them today to do more GS, adding the sugar/superglue (like on the War Altar of Nurgle - another project I need to finish) and to use the Dremel to add more texture to the bodywork.

I will probably do a bit of tidying up here and there but otherwise the build is done - though I do need to sort the cockpits, namely sorting out the gap I have when they are in place.

Anyway, onto some pictures...

Hell Blade No. 1

Hell Blade No. 2

And one quick shot of the bases without the 'Blades: